From Opus

Photo by birdclub
Emas National Park, Brazil

Alectrurus tricolor

[edit] Identification

12cm
Male

• Black upperparts
• Grey rump
• White face and underparts
• White between wing tops
• Black patch on sides of breast
• Black tail with elongated tail feathers forming a crescent
  

Female - similar

• Brown
• Normal-shaped, short tail

Female
Photo by Luiz
Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais Brazil, April 2010

[edit] Distribution

South America: found locally in eastern Bolivia, north-eastern Argentina, north-eastern Paraguay and outherns Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

[edit] Habitat

Lowland dry grassland and seasonally wet or flooded grassland with tall vegetation.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. ARKive

• List of references

[edit] External Links